Three ballads. Burns's Farewell - first line reads: Ae fond kiss and then we sever. Hurrah for an Irish stew - first line reads: Hurrah! for an Irish stew! Turn again, thou fair Eliza - first line reads: Turn again, thou fair Eliza. In two columns with a woodcut above each (the first being a portrait of Robert Burns).

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Emigration & farewells

English ballads

Description

Collection of 2,300 broadside ballads, mostly printed in England in the 19th century. Topics range from courtship, crime, disasters and emigration to fashion, theatre, politics, laments sports and old age. Includes ballads on Scotland and Ireland. Part of the Crawford Collections on deposit from the Balcarres Heritage Trust.

Attribution and copyright:

Reproduced with permission from materials on loan to the National Library of Scotland from the Balcarres Heritage Trust.

More information

Form / genre:

Miscellaneous > Ephemera > Broadsides

Dates / events:

1800-1900 [Date printed]

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